Ghazals sung by IQBAL GILL

Music Director Iqbal, who is often confused as music director Iqbal Qureshi, was popularly known as Chhote Iqbal in inner circles. He was a music composer, a trained semi classical singer and also a vocal music teacher/trainer. At an early age of 22 he became a music director with a movie called Malika Salomi that was released in the early 1950s. He composed music for several small budget movies, that were called stunt movies, throughout the 1950s and 60s. His last movies that released in the early 90s were ‘Jaan Pehchan’, for which he recorded a solo song in his own voice, and ‘Kala Coat’. Besides, he was popular for composing several private ghazals, geets, nazms, qawwalis, bhajans etc. that were recorded by HMV in the voices of none other than Mohd Rafi, Talat Mehmood, Suman Kalyanpur, Mahendra Kapoor, Shailendra Singh, Jagjit Kaur, Anwar, Chandru Atma, Sadat Ashrah etc. He was also a popular music teacher (vocal) who trained several well known singers like Shailendra Singh, Anuradha Paudwal, Shabbir Kumar etc. He was an excellent ghazal singer himself and was known for his accurate nuances, tayyari and presentation (adaigi). He initially used to sing on All India Radio and for a ghazal concert called Shab-E-Ghazal that was popular a few decades back. But in later years he sang only at private ghazal parties for friends and well wishers.
Presenting here are some ghazals sung by him at these private gatherings and also some film and private songs composed by him.

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